Thomas Gradgrind - from Hard Times - is one of Charles Dickens's coldest characters and is the twelth in the Telegraph pick of the best Charles Dickens characters. Granada's critically acclaimed ...

A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.… ...

Thomas Gradgrind, in Dickens’s novel Hard Times, is obsessed with unambiguous facts and numbers. When I asked a press officer at HMRC for an estimate of how many “open cases” it plans to write off, ...

Deborah McAndrew puts an intelligent new slant on a classic novel as Northern Broadsides add extra oom-pah Charles Dickens’s 1854 novel of life in a northern English mill town opens in the schoolroom ...

Thomas Gradgrind, the notorious school-board superintendent in Charles Dickens’s novel Hard Times, is alive and well and running education systems around the world, it has been claimed. That is the ...

Sissy Jupe, from Hard Times, is a one of Charles Dickens's fine sorrowful characters and is the fourth in the Telegraph pick of the best Charles Dickens characters. Gradgrind in Hard Times identifies ...